A local rights group, along with dozens of Nigerians, had gone to the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States to fight the ban. A West African court has stopped the Nigerian government from “illegally” prosecuting people who use Twitter, as it considers legal action byRead More →
The White House revokes Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban TikTok and WeChat, but orders the Commerce Department to conduct a security review of apps made, controlled or supplied by China. Joe Biden, the President of the United States, has abandoned Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban popularRead More →
Vehicles drive past the New York Times headquarters in New York March 1, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo On Tuesday morning, multiple outages hit social media, government sites and news websites around the world, with some reports pointing to a problem at US cloud service provider Fastly. Reuters could not immediatelyRead More →
Lagos, Nigeria – Emmanuel Alumona, a Lagos-based front-end developer, realized early Saturday that he couldn’t access Twitter on his phone. A day earlier, the Nigerian government announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations in the country due to “the persistent use of the platform for activities that could undermine theRead More →
The announcement comes two days after the social media giant deleted a post from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account. Nigeria has said it is indefinitely suspending Twitter operations in the country, two days after the social media network deleted a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionistsRead More →